Sentence examples for historical optimism from inspiring English sources

"It's simply an expression of historical optimism.

The subject, broached while Roxy is seen onscreen, plays like Godard's one rare glimmer of historical optimism.

There is conspicuous consumption, high fashion and cosmopolitan lifestyle – but also national pride and a sense of historical optimism.

It prescribed a catechism of moral commonplaces and historical optimism about bourgeois life, spiced with deep pessimism about the possibility of altering that life.

Bush's "age of liberty" address begins on a note of historical optimism: "We've witnessed, in little over a generation, the swiftest advance of freedom in the 2,500-year 2,500-yearemocracy..

Actually, "Quartett" is a freely conceived adaptation of the notorious pre-Revolution French novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," by Choderlos de Laclos, which was publicly burned and banned as obscene in its own era and which is to historical optimism what Tommy Hilfiger is to self-expression.

Certainly Pop Art's historical reputation for optimism is not confirmed by Mr. Oldenburg's early output.

But Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, the head of North Carolina's NAACP chapter and a leader in the "Moral Mondays" movement, views this historical moment with optimism but urges vigilance.

To be more precise, it needs patriotism, historical consciousness, education, ambition, optimism and, especially, patience.

This book's chapter on the historical roots of the optimism business and on the stern Calvinist values that are at the heart of it (since the self that can be improved must be inherently flawed) is sturdy.

And while Beck has a devoted following, it's not likely that relentless optimism and historical narratives will put Beck back into the mainstream.